[sf-lug] BALUG Dinner: WiFi Mesh Networking (Tuesday)

[Andrew Fife]

Howdy Folks: 

Balug on Tuesday will host a new speaker, Thomas Belote.  

Tom will be talking about wireless mesh networking.  As a grad student at
San Jose State, Thomas has worked on Wireless Mesh Networking and Mobile
Ad Hoc Networking. His talk will compare solutions like OLSR and
Microsoft's semi open source Mesh Connectivity Layer (that doesn't run on
Linux). He will discuss why WDS is not sufficient and a mesh protocol is
needed, and discuss the lack of openness thus far in 802.11s even though
it is included in the OLPC, as well as security issues and implications.

If you'd like to come, please RSVP: 
  
  RSVP at balug.org 

Meeting Details... 

  6:30pm 
  April 20th, 2008 (Tuesday) 
  
  Four Seas Restaurant 
  731 Grant Ave. 
  San Francisco, CA 94108 
  Easy $5 Parking:  http://www.portsmouthsquaregarage.com/ 

Cost = $13 for dinner, but the meeting itself is free 

Upcoming 2008 speakers include: 

  June - Andrew Morton (Linux Kernel) 
  July - Mike Linksyaver (Creative Commons) 
  Aug  - TBD 
  Sept - Ian Murdock (Debian & Sun) 

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  http://lists.balug.org/listinfo.cgi/balug-announce-balug.org 



About BALUG: 
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BALUG is lively gathering of Linux users & free software enthusiasts that
combines great food, community & intimate access to featured speakers.  We
meet in the bar of the Four Seas Restaurant from 6:30pm.  At 7pm, we share
a family-style Chinese dinner, which is followed by our guest speaker.



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